VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3789

medium
Published 2012-08-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.7rc3, 0.5.x before 0.5.6rc3, 0.6.0.x before 0.6.0.9rc1, and 0.6.x before 0.6.3rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang) via unknown behavior on a Bitcoin network.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.0
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.2
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.3
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.4
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.5
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.6
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.4.7
bitcoinbitcoin_core{"endIncluding":"0.5.6"}
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.0
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.3
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.3.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.4
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.5
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.5.6
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.2
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.3
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.4
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.5
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.6
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.7
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0.8
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.0
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.1
bitcoinbitcoin_core0.6.2

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.